[mythtv-users] ATI capture card

[nick travis]

That's what I figured, thanks for the info.

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 02:44, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 10:56 PM 9/11/2003 -0400, Nick Travis wrote:
> >I've got an older ATI all-in-wonder 128 capture card(16MB), assuming I 
> >could even get this card to work would 16MB even be enough to work, i'm 
> >not looking for great quality, just something that will work.
> 
> Depends on what you want it to do.
> 
> You *might* get it to work for video out to a TV, if you use the modified, 
> *experimental* GATOS X driver. If you can, 16 MB is probably enough ... 
> 640x480x24bpp is only 1 MB, after all.
> 
> You should have no trouble whatsoever getting it to work for video out to a 
> VGA monitor; the standard X drivers should handle this just fine (though I 
> haven't personally used that specific ATI card).
> 
> You will NOT get it to work for video capture. Don't ask. Don't argue. It 
> doesn't work. Period.
> 
> See Section 3.1 of the MythTV HowTo, where both topics are discussed. Or 
> search the list archives for more details on *why* video capture doesn't 
> work ... it's been discussed to death.
> 
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